Chaya - a community-based nonprofit organization in Seattle to
serve South Asian women in times of crisis and need, and
to raise awareness of domestic violence issues. While many
excellent agencies provide services for Southeast Asians
in Seattle, Chaya is the only organization to specifically
address the needs of South Asian women.

COLOR
COLOR approaches reproductive health and rights from a holistic perspective, embracing the cultural values and history of the Latino community. COLOR believes that if the mind, body and spirit of a Latina are strong, she will be empowered to make healthy decisions concerning her body and, ultimately, her life. To explain the mysterious term 'reproductive health' COLOR adapted the following definition from the U.N. International Conference on Population Development

includes mind, body and spirit

right of Latinas to have a satisfying and safe sex life

capability to have children and the freedom to decide if, when and how often to do so

right to be informed and to have access to safe, effective, affordable methods of family planning of choice

Sister Love, Inc.
A reproductive justice organization for women with a Focus on HIV/AIDS
Atlanta, GA

Sisters Network a national African American breast cancer survivorship organization

"African-American Women’s Maternal Health"
- Surveys have long since established disparities in maternal healthcare for African-American women - that they are three times more likely to die than white women to die from pregnancy-related complications and that their babies are half as likely to live out their first year. But the causes of this disparity are not fully understood, despite the existing data. A new study out of the University of Michigan is examining African-American women's maternal health, but from a variety of angles, including socioeconomic disparities, bias and discrimination. An interdisciplinary approach to the problem may be the start of an effective solution. Read more here: http://www.womensenews.org/article.cfm/dyn/aid/2113/context/archive

"Racial Disparities in Medicine Have Lethal Consequences" (December 2004) Advances in medicine happen every day, and these advances save lives. But a new study published in the American Journal of Public Health examines how these advances do not reach all populations equally, and mortality rates have decreased among white people at a greater rate than for African-Americans. The study’s conclusion: racial disparities in healthcare resulted in nearly 900,000 preventable deaths for African-Americans in the period between 1991-2001. According to one of the researchers, "five times as many lives can be saved by correcting the disparities ... than in developing new treatments." Read more about this important study here: http://www.kaisernetwork.org/daily_reports/rep_index.cfm?DR_ID=27349 or read the abstract here: http://www.ajph.org/cgi/content/abstract/94/12/2078

RADIO

Voices and Choices - a weekly pro-choice and progressive radio program dedicated to educating and sharing, through our research and activism, what we have learned.

WEBCASTS

University of California, San Francisco Center for Gender Equity and National Center of Excellence in Women's Health present Women's Health at Twelve (WHAT), a free noon-time lecture series. Tune in to UCTV every month for a live talk with a UCSF health science expert who will discuss important women's health topics and answer your e-mail questions in real time. Watch previously recorded programs on women's health, including menopause and current events.

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Rosita
The plight of a nine-year-old Nicaraguan girl, who becomes pregnant as the result of a rape, triggers a battle over whose life has precedence.

Produced and directed over a period of eleven years, seven of which were full time, by Aishah Shahidah Simmons,NO! explores the international reality of rape, other forms of sexual assault and healing through the first person testimonies, scholarship, spirituality, activism, and cultural work of African-Americans. This groundbreaking, award-winning documentary also explores how rape is used as a weapon of homophobia.

Defending A Choice for Women
a documentary about the ongoing clinic defense project in Miami. A clinic, aptly titled A Choice for Women, is under attack by pro-life fanatics. Miami Clinic Access Project was established to defend such clinics. This movie chronicles six months in the struggle to defend one American clinic.

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